Kate Ryder, piano and toy pianos, SNCMF

Kate Ryder wraps up the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival with an intimate and personal programme of music for piano and toy pianos, with particular resonance for these uncertain times. From the poignant Akiko’s Diary and the delicate joy of Fragile, to the restless energy of Railroad, the humour of Mirabella and East Broadway for toy pianos, and the ghostly echoes and tolling bells in A Little Midnight Music, themes of memory, belonging, reflection and renewal gradually unfold throughout this personal diary.

John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano
George Crumb: A Little Midnight Music, for amplified piano
Dai Fujikura: Akiko’s Diary, for piano
Brian Inglis: Four Pieces for Toy Piano
Meredith Monk: Railroad (Travel Song), for piano
Stephen Montague: Mirabella, for toy piano
Judith Weir: Fragile (A Love Song), for piano
Julia Wolfe: East Broadway, for toy piano and toy beatbox

Part of the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival, 7-8 and 14-15 May 2022.